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BEETHOVEN String Quartets Vol 2

Here is the second release in a major studio cycle launched earlier in this, the Doric’s 25th year and intended...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2024

The Experts: The Bach & Silbermann Dynasties

The ‘experts’ celebrated here by French baroque Ensemble Les Surprises under keyboardist-conductor Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas are two musical family...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2024

Michael Collins: British music for clarinet and piano

In this year when the centenary of Stanford’s death is marked, it seems very appropriate that at the heart of...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 11/2024

Unplayed Stories… in 40 Fingers

Multi-pianist discs are few and far between, the visual impact of many hands making light work of (usually) arrangements of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2024

Alison Balsom: Baroque Concertos

This programme of deftly configured trumpet adaptations of oboe and violin concertos fairly fizzes. Here we find that rare thing...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2024

G WILLIAMS Orchestral Works (Andrews)

When Grace Williams went to Caernarfon in 1969 to hear her contribution to the investiture of the Prince of Wales...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 11/2024

SUTTON Orchestral Works (Michael Seal)

Tony-nominated, Olivier-winning Adrian Sutton (b1967, Kent) is celebrated in the theatre world for his scores, the best-known of which are...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2024

SIBELIUS Violin Concerto (James Ehnes)

A veritable compendium of Sibelius’s writing for the instrument closest to his heart. There’s the big one, of course, but...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2024

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 6 & 9 (Rouvali)

Santtu-Matias Rouvali proves himself a persuasive Shostakovich conductor on this live recording, his first release of the composer’s music. His...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2024

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 5 & 8 (Emelyanychev)

The appointment of Maxim Emelyanychev to the principal conductorship of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra was a bold and eye-catching move,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2024

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